Museums in Aquitaine

Musée d'histoire de France
64000 Pau

Château de Pau, listed as a historical monument in 1840, is a medieval building transformed into a Renaissance palace located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Former residence of the kings of Navarre, it now houses a national museum dedicated to Henry IV, born between its walls in 1553.

Musée d'Art provenant de collections privées
64000 Pau

The Bernadotte Museum, housed in an 18th-century bourgeois house in Pau, traces the life of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, an Empire Marshal who became king of Sweden and Norway.

Musée de géologie et des volcans
33650 Saucats

The Saucats-La Brède Nature Reserve, classified in 1982 as Gironde, protects 6 major geological sites of the Miocene, including the stratotypes of the Aquitanian and Burdigalian, in the heart of the Landes forest.

40300 Bélus

The Departmental Museum of History and Archaeology, located in Bélus, New Aquitaine, houses prehistoric and Gallo-Roman collections from local excavations. It is associated with the Abbey of Arthous, a Romanesque jewel of the Landes.

40500 Audignon

The Museum of Art and History of Cap de Gascogne, in Saint-Sever (Landes), exhibits medieval lapidary collections and an illuminated 11th century manuscript in an ancient Jacobin convent of the 13th century.

40430 Argelouse

The workshop-museum of Argelouse, located in New Aquitaine, is a former industrial site dedicated to the distillation of resin, a witness of the economic history of the Landes de Gascogne between 1859 and 1954.

Musée des arts de la table
40320 Arboucave

The departmental museum of earthenware and table arts in Samadet, located in the Landes, traces the history of the 18th century Royal Manufacture of earthenware and the evolution of the culinary arts.

Musée des Artistes peintres célèbres
40100 Dax

The Georgette-Dupouy Museum, located in Dax in the Landes, is a space dedicated to contemporary art. He paid tribute to the painter Georgette Dupouy, in a dynamic cultural setting in New Aquitaine.